6th November 2011, 10:41 AM
If you said a black person had a "black core", a naturally "black" part of their personality, then yes, that WOULD be racist. A black person is no more obligated to research their past than an Irish person.
What you are talking about is essentially a product of culture, not genetics, and that's where it falls flat. What, do you think female boxers or stay-at-home dads are just living a lie?
What you are talking about is essentially a product of culture, not genetics, and that's where it falls flat. What, do you think female boxers or stay-at-home dads are just living a lie?
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)